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Top Insights to Build and Sustain a Global Brand with Sharon Lechter
https://steeringpoint.ie/podcast/top-insights-in-building-and-sustaining-a-global-brand-with-sharon-lechter/On this special episode we have Johnny Cooper as the guest host, who is the Director of Leadership and Talent Development at Steering Point Advisory. He is joined by Sharon Lechter, an entrepreneur, international speaker, mentor, best-selling author, philanthropist, licensed CPA for the last 35 years and a chartered global management accountant. Sharon coauthored the […]
Combatting Cybersecurity Risks
https://steeringpoint.ie/worklife/combatting-cybersecurity-risks/“Cybercrime is on the rise. Technological advancements paired with geopolitical instability have contributed to an increasingly fractious security environment. The cost of a cybercrime attack –– financially and reputationally –– can devastate a business. As such, greater precautions need to be taken. Businesses must decide whether they’re going to invest in their in-house cybersecurity unit or offset the duty to a third-party.”
Should Brands Weigh in on Social Issues?
https://steeringpoint.ie/worklife/should-brands-weigh-in-on-social-issues/“Over the past decade, it’s become not just acceptable but expected that major brands will weigh in on the issue of the day. From Black Lives Matter to #MeToo through issues around gender identity and abortion, consumers wanted to know they were not giving their hard-earned cash to enterprises they deemed to be against their principles. For their part, brands were happy to play along, appeasing consumer desires and sometimes outright cashing in on them. All that changed on October 7th.”
The EU AI Act: What you Need to Know
https://steeringpoint.ie/worklife/the-eu-ai-act-what-you-need-to-know/“The EU AI Act seeks to set a definitive definition of AI that is also broad enough to cover the diversity of AI’s current use-points and any potential future developments. As such, drawing from the OECD’s definition, the act describes an AI system as: “a machine-based system designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy and that may exhibit adaptiveness after deployment and that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments.””
Creating and fostering cultures of meaning
https://steeringpoint.ie/worklife/creating-and-fostering-cultures-of-meaning/A modish topic, but sometimes less emphasised, facet of success is company culture. Culture is a catchall term, but it comes down to how organisation systems are formed and maintained. It is social in origin and totalising in dissemination. That matters because humans are not innate; we produce and reproduce these systems through learned behaviour, mirroring, and various institutions.
How Much Should You be Working?
https://steeringpoint.ie/worklife/how-much-should-you-be-working/“Digital tools have made it possible to work from pretty much anywhere, at pretty much any time. This was supposed to usher in a new age of liberation: the worker, no longer constrained by their office environment or nine-to-five schedule, is now free to live the life they always wanted. In reality, it has just meant the expectation of swift email correspondence has extended its lebensraum to the realms of evenings, weekends and even holidays. That edenic notion of freetime signed off its suicide note with a customary “sent from my iPhone” footer.”
NIS2: What Companies Need to Know
https://steeringpoint.ie/worklife/nis2-what-companies-need-to-know/“The EU’s Network and Information Systems Directive (NIS2) is scheduled to come into effect across member states on October 18th, 2024. Businesses that fail to put the right measures in place by that date are at risk of facing serious regulatory problems, including the potential suspension of C-suite executives and fines of up to €10 million.”
Niall ‘Bressie’ Breslin: Musician, Athlete, Mental Health Maverick
https://steeringpoint.ie/podcast/niall-bressie-breslin-musician-athlete-mental-health-maverick/Niall Breslin, or ‘Bressie’ to many of us, is one of Ireland’s most formidable and inspiring mental health advocates. Niall holds an MSc in mindfulness-based intervention, bachelor’s degrees in economics and sociology and is an honorary fellow of both the Royal College of Surgeons and the IADT. He is currently undertaking a PhD in psycho/social […]
The Fragility of Global Supply Chains, and What Comes Next
https://steeringpoint.ie/worklife/the-fragility-of-global-supply-chains-and-what-comes-next/“You wait half an hour for a bus and then two show up at once. So the saying goes, anyway. Well, for global supply chains, the saying can be amended to: you wait decades for debilitating geopolitical events (or farcical bad luck) to put established supply chains in jeopardy and then four come along at once. It’s not catchy, but it is accurate.”
Financial Education: What do Employers Owe their Employees?
https://steeringpoint.ie/worklife/financial-education-what-do-employers-owe-their-employees/“Employers have an obligation to ensure their staff are financially literate. That means teaching them about key areas in which they can make improvements, such as budget and savings planning, financial goals, property advice, retirement projections, investment education and debt management – and tailoring that advice according to each individual’s circumstances. ”
The Importance of Ethics
https://steeringpoint.ie/worklife/the-importance-of-ethics/“Ethisphere, an organisation that tracks the ethical conduct of the world’s largest companies, found that the businesses that qualified for its 2022 list of most ethical companies outperformed an index of similar large cap companies by 24.6 percent overall. The Institute of Business Ethics similarly found that companies with high ethical standards are 10.7% more profitable than those without. ”
Combatting Decision Fatigue
https://steeringpoint.ie/worklife/combatting-decision-fatigue/“Decision fatigue is “the idea that after making many decisions, your ability to make more and more decisions over the course of a day becomes worse,” says Lisa MacLean, MD, psychiatrist and chief wellness officer at Henry Ford Health System. “The more decisions you have to make, the more fatigue you develop and the more difficult it can become””
